Orrin G. Hatch

Orrin G. Hatch, in full Orrin Grant Hatch
(born March 22, 1934, Homestead Park, Pa., U.S.), American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Utah (1977– ), becoming the state’s longest-serving senator. A Republican, he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2005.

Hatch, who was raised a Mormon, earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University (1959) and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1962). He worked as a lawyer in Pittsburgh from 1963 to 1969, when he relocated his practice to Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1977 he was elected ... (100 of 761 words)